Spooks and hacks: blood brothers

Abstract

Robert Dover and Michael Goodman analyse the complex relationship between intelligence agencies, the media and the public, arguing that it raises increasingly important questions about where journalists get their information from and how they go about reporting it. Spooks and hacks have more in common than might be obvious. Notably, say the authors in a series of challenging assertions, they both operate without the consent of the people about whom they are seeking information and then produce that knowledge for specific purposes.